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Stroller wrote: |
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> On 1 Feb 2006, at 18:27, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: |
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>> On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 17:03 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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>>> I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard |
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>>> disk....Is it true? |
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>> Short answer for your question is... No. It's not true. |
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>> suppose you have deleted file. This operation only |
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>> removes entry in you directory table, but not the file itself. Or you |
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>> did format you hard drive. That will rebuild only file structure on |
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>> you |
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>> hard drive. Normally that means that you overwrite about 5% of you |
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>> drive. All other data is intact. Just read it. |
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> I think you just contradicted yourself. |
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No, I don't think he has. |
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>> ...If you do `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd then there is no |
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>> chances you'll get you data. Why? Because all byte and bits on your |
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>> hard |
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>> drive became 0. |
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> This is not what normally (or at least, _always_) happens when you |
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> format a hard-drive. |
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Well, depends on the definition of "format". If you |
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define format as "overwrite partition table", than |
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you're right. But that's hardly what I'd call "format". |
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